The effect of organizational culture and the relationship between transformational leadership and job satisfaction in international organizations of health sector

Abstract

Background: Leadership is one of important key to improve performance of healthcare employee. Leadership styles are important organizational practice, especially in encourage and increase employee’s job satisfaction, teamwork, and effect of organizational culture for these facility on employee satisfaction level. This study to find and investigate the relationship between Transformational Leadership, organizational culture, and job satisfaction level of employee in international healthcare facility, additional to that it will investigate if any of the demographic factors (Age, Education level, and years of experience/) have impact on job satisfaction level among healthcare worker international healthcare organizations. Method: quantitative non-experimental correlation research design among randomly selected sample from healthcare worker in international healthcare facility to examine the relationship between leadership Practices especially Transformational leadership style, organizational culture on employee job satisfaction by using self-administered questionnaire for 30 healthcare workers in different facility with a correlational design for this study. Data were collected on health workers’ perception of leadership styles displayed by their facility leaders, their level of job satisfaction, and organizational culture for their organizations. Result: Transformational leadership was positively correlated with job satisfaction (r=0.869) and organizational culture (r=0.631), while result show no relation between (age, education level, and years of experience) on satisfaction level of healthcare worker in the international healthcare organizations. Conclusion: Transformational styles had a positive impact on assuring job satisfaction, and organizational culture had the same impact on satisfaction level among healthcare workers. Recommendations: Supporting transformational leadership skills improving in healthcare facility and arrange regular training for leaders in this practice, also the organization should do regular and contentious review of the culture since it has positive or negative effect on the job satisfaction level of the employee which will affect the quality of healthcare services and will effect positively or negatively the patient experience in this organization and organizational culture practice improving could strengthen job satisfaction, among health workers for better service delivery with high quality level which will lead to patient satisfaction.